Re: [Emacs-diffs] feature/integrated-elpa 4f6df43 15/23: README added

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Alain Schneble <address@hidden>
> CC: <address@hidden>, <address@hidden>,
>       <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 15:33:06 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I was hoping the modified package.el will help us get the files from
> > the repository, either local or remote, directly into the Emacs source
> > tree.
> 
> You are right, supporting both cases would indeed make sense.  And
> depending on how this is going to be implemented, these may not be much
> different.  Especially if we would always clone all ELPA core package
> repositories locally and then dispatch the files from there into the
> Emacs source tree.  Or did you envision to just download the latest
> (tagged?) revision and only have the repos cloned on demand?

I didn't think about details this deep, only about general principles.